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THE COMMEMORATION 

OF THE HARVARD MEN WHO GAVE THEIR 
LIVES IN THE WAR AGAINST GERMANY 



HELD AT SANDERS THEATRE 

ON MEMORIAL DAY, MAY 30, I92O 

AT FOUR O'CLOCK 




CAMBRIDGE 

HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS 

1920 



ORDER OF THE EXERCISES 

IN SANDERS THEATRE 
President Lowell presiding 



MUSIC : Prayer of Thanksgiving 

Harvard University Glee Club and Choir 

PRAYERS Bishop William Law^rence 

MUSIC : The Answer of the Stars 

Harvard University Glee Club and Choir 

ADDRESS Governor Calvin Coolidge 

ADDRESS General John J. Pershing, U. S. A. 

MUSIC : Fair Harvard (first stam^) 

The Audience, led by the Glee Club and Choir 

BENEDICTION Bishop Lawrence 

THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER 

Harvard University Band 



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y C^\^ Sunday afternoon, May 30, 1920, Harvard University commemo- 
V^ rated the Harvard men who gave their Hves in the war against Ger- 
many, and especially the former members of the Harvard Regiment and 
their sometime commander, Lt.-Col. James Andrew Shannon, U. S. A. 
The exercises were attended by General John J. Pershing, Commander- 
"1. in-Chief of the American Expeditionary Forces; Governor Calvin Coolidge, 

-> representing the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; Major General CoUar- 

|~ det, representing the French Embassy; Colonel Marquis Vittorio Asinari di 

* Bernezzo, representing the Italian Embassy; Lieutenant Colonel Andrew 

Thorne, representing the British Embassy; representatives of the North- 
eastern Department of the United States Army and of the First Naval 
District of the United States Navy, and a large number of other distin- 
guished guests. The Belgian Embassy was also invited to send a military 
representative but was unable to arrange to do so. 

At three o'clock, members of the Corporation and Board of Overseers of 
Harvard College and the Faculties assembled in the entrance hall of the 
Widener Library, the members of the Faculties being in academic costume. 
At the same time the following assembled on the library steps: some four 
hundred and fifty former members of the Harvard Regiment, most of them 
in uniform; some fifty members of the James A. Shannon Post of the Amer- 
ican Legion, which was named in honor of Colonel Shannon; about fifteen 
representatives of the Charles Beck Post of the Grand Army of the Republic; 
a number of Harvard Veterans of the Civil War, about thirty representatives 
of the Cambridge Post No. 27 of the American Legion, and a number of stu- 
dents of the University. These men, most of them in uniform, formed in a 
double line on the steps of the library, while the Harvard University Band 
played under the portico. The colors of the Harvard Regiment and the 
flags of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and of Great Britain, France 
and Italy were placed on the platforms on either side of the steps. At twenty 
minutes after three a party consisting of the following, left the President's 
house in automobiles: General Pershing and his aide. Colonel Quekemeyer; 
Governor Coolidge and his aide. Major Sampson; President Lowell; Gen- 
eral Collardet; Colonel di Bernezzo and his aide, Captain Huntington; 
Lieutenant Colonel Thorne; and Professor Theodore Lyman, who wore his 
major's uniform and was assigned by the University as a special aide to 
General Pershing. 

The party was escorted by a mounted detachment of forty men from the 
Harvard Field Artillery Unit, under Captain R. C. F. Goetz, Professor of 
Military Science and Tactics, and proceeded by way of Quincy Street, 
Broadway, Cambridge Street, and the Johnston Gate to the Library. The 

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Yard had been closed to the public at one o'clock and only ticket holders, of 
whom there were over three thousand, were admitted. Arriving at the Li- 
brary, where the Harvard University Band played the "General's March," 
the party entered the building through the lane formed by the double line on 
the steps, while the mounted escort took up a position at the foot of the steps 
facing the Library. Within the Library, General Pershing laid a laurel wreath 
at the base of the Harvard Roll of Honor, which bears the names of the Har- 
vard men who gave their lives in the war. This had been placed in the 
Memorial Hall of the Library on the side of the screen containing the photo- 
graphs of the Harvard war dead. 

General Pershing, President Lowell and the distinguished guests then 
came out of the library', and as they reached the steps a battery of the Har- 
vard Field Artillery unit, which at twelve o'clock had fired the regular 
Memorial Day salute on Soldiers Field, now fired a salute of seventeen 
guns in honor of General Pershing, being stationed for the purpose in front 
of Hoi worthy Hall. 

When the salute was over the procession to Sanders Theatre formed in 
front of the Library. The mounted escort led the way followed by the 
Harvard University Band, President Lowell and General Pershing, the 
other distinguished guests, the Corporation, Overseers and Faculties, the 
Harvard Veterans of the Civil War, the Charles Beck Post of the G. A. R., 
the color guard, the Harvard Regiment, the Shannon Post, Cambridge 
Post No. 27, and other members of the University. They left the Yard by the 
Meyer Gate and proceeded to Memorial Hall, where the mounted escort 
drew up in the street while the rest of the procession entered the building. 
By this time such invited guests and ticket holders as did not march in the 
procession were in their places in the theatre. The procession filled the 
remaining seats. 

On the stage sat President Lowell, with General Pershing on his right 
and Governor CooHdge on his left, the other distinguished guests, members 
of the Governing Boards, and the Harvard University Glee Club and Choir, 
led by Dr. Archibald T. Davison. The colors were placed on either side of 
the front of the stage. 

After the exercises those in the audience were given an opportunity to 
visit the Library and see the roll of honor and photographs of the Harvard 
men who gave their lives in the war. 



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PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING 

{Netherlands Folk Song.) 
Sung by the Harvard University Glee Club and Choir, 

We gather together to ask the Lord's blessing, 
He chastens and hastens His will to make known; 
The wicked oppressing cease them from distressing, 
Sing praises to His name, He forgets not His own. 

Beside us to guide us, our God with us joining. 
Ordaining, maintaining. His Kingdom divine. 
So from the beginning the fight we were winning; 
Thou, Lord, wast at our side, the glory be Thine. 

We all do extol Thee, Thou Leader in battle. 
And pray that Thou still our Defender wilt be. 
Let Thy congregation escape tribulation: 
Thy name be ever prais'd! O Lord, make us free! 



PRAYERS OFFERED BY BISHOP LAWRENCE 

The Lord's Prayer. 
Our Father, who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom 
come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our 
daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who tres- 
pass against us. And lead us not into temptation; But deliver us from 
evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power and the glory, for ever 
and ever. Amen. 

Let us offer our Prayer of Commemoration and Thanksgiving. 

Almighty God, with whom do live the Spirits of just men made perfect, 
be with us, we beseech Thee, as we commemorate the Sons of Harvard who 
gave their lives for liberty and the truth. We remember before Thee their 
loyalty to home, family and school. We recall the deepening sense of duty 
in college days; and with gratitude and pride we catch again the light in 
their faces, their serious and buoyant mien as they heard and answered 
the call of their country. 

Patient in privation, faithful in the detail of discipline, loyal to their Com- 
manders, facing danger with serenity, falling in the sure faith of the right- 
ness of their cause, happy in dying for others, they stand before us now 
soldiers of high faith with the charm and joy of the chivalry of the ages. 
Their names and deeds blend with the Sons of Harvard to whom this Hall 
is dedicated; and as we gather them all into the treasury of Harvard's 
heroes, we dedicate ourselves to the great task for which they fell, and we 

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strive on to finish the work we are in, to do all which may achieve a just 
and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations: through Jesus 
Christ our Lord. Amen. 

Let us pray for those whose loved ones fell in the war. 
Have compassion, most merciful God, on thy servants, bereaved and 
afflicted, and on all who are mourning for those dear to them. Be thou 
their Comforter and Friend, and bring them to a fuller knowledge of thy 
love. Assuage the anguish of their bereavement, and leave only the cher- 
ished memory of the loved and lost, and a solemn pride to have laid so 
costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. For the sake of Jesus Christ 
our Saviour. Amen. 

In our prayers we name our University. 

Spirit of Truth who has led the Sons of men from truth to ever revealing 
truth, pour Thy increasing blessings upon our University, that students, 
teachers and officers, patrons and graduates may from her and her sacri- 
fice gain new inspiration to seek for, and serve the Truth. 

For these, our brothers, fought for her, 
At fife's dear peril wrought for her, 
So loved her that they died for her. 

Amen. 

Let us join in the prayer of George Washington for our country. 

Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that thou wilt keep the United 
States in thy holy protection; that thou wilt incfine the hearts of the 
citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to govern- 
ment; to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another and for 
their fellow citizens of the United States at large. And finally that thou 
wilt most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love 
mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humifity and pacific 
temper of mind which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of 
our blessed religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example 
in these things we can never hope to be a happy nation. Grant our suppli- 
cation, we beseech Thee, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 

Let us pray for the beautiful life. 

O God, who on the mount didst reveal to chosen witnesses thine only 
begotten Son wonderfully transfigured, in raiment white and glistening; 
Mercifully grant that we, being delivered from the disquietude of this 
world, may be permitted to behold the King in his beauty, who with Thee, 
O Father, and Thee, O Holy Ghost, liveth and reigneth, one God, world 
without end. Amen. 

The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the Fellowship 
of the Holy Ghost, be with us all evermore. Amen. 

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THE ANSWER OF THE STARS 

Music by Frederick S. Converse, 'gj. Words by M.A.DeWolfe Howe, '87. 
Written in honor of the Harvard Soldiers of the Great War. 

Sung by the Harvard University Glee Club and Choir. 

Stars that are vigilant eyes of the flags returning 
Home from the crimsoned fields where the fight was won. 

What have ye looked upon there, what vision burning 

Stands uneffaced when the march and the charge are done ? 

Youth we have seen in the ardors of consecration, 

Youth with its generous hands overbrimmed with goldy 

Counting the coin of life but a poor oblation 
Borne to the shrine of a faith that grows not old. 

Death we have seen in the bleakest and noblest guises, 
Death for the cause whereby mankind shall live; 

Life we have seen, like a steadfast tide that rises 

Flooding the shoals of self , while the deep calls. Give! 

Offering all for the last, supreme decision. 

Paying the uttermost farthing in blood and tears — 

Yea, it was giving and giving that flashed the vision 
Bright in the eyes of your flags through the war-torn years! 

Stars that are vigilant eyes of the flags returning 
Home from the crimsoned fields where the fight was won, 

This that ye saw — let it shine as the goal of our yearning. 
Charter and rock of our faith for the years begun ! 



PRESIDENT LOWELL 
Introducing Governor Coolidge 

UNDER the stress of war, and in the peaceful labors of the study, the 
University ever strives to serve a public end. No academic festival, 
no day marked out for mourning, would be complete without the presence 
of the Commonwealth speaking in the person of her Governor. 



GOVERNOR COOLIDGE 

MR. President and Faculty; Veterans; representatives of the land and 
naval forces of our nation; ladies and gentlemen: 

The story of Harvard University is the story of Massachusetts. This 
University and her alumni have been a great contributing factor in peace 

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and war to the glory of our Commonwealth. We assemble here today on 
an occasion dedicated by law to the hallowed memory of those who, wearing 
the imiform of our nation, have given their hves in the cause of her liberty. 
It is altogether fitting that this assemblage should come here under these 
auspices to pay our tribute of respect and reverence for those who have given 
their lives in this great cause. 

What, — what, after all, was the object that they sought ? It can be 
summed up in two words: the victory of righteousness, and righteous peace. 

If this occasion is to have any meaning for us, if it is to bring any lesson 
to us, we must resolve that the lesson that their hves and their death have 
taught us is to be taken up and carried on and exemplified by those who come 
after. We come here as a result of war, but we come for the purpose of per- 
petuating, estabUshing, supporting and maintaining peace — a peace of 
righteousness. 

There are but two means by which that object can be accomphshed. 
One is justice on the part of our nation toward all the other nations of the 
earth. And justice means action according to law, action according to the 
conscience of civihzation and the edict of humanity. There is not authority 
from which we can secure peace unless it be accompanied by justice. There 
is no power great enough to guarantee it to us, no force strong enough to 
provide it for us. So that it is of the utmost consequence that we ascertain 
what our relationship one with another in our domestic affairs and in our 
foreign affairs may be, and see that it is administered, and that there is 
obedience to that law on our own part. 

The other is the power to force obedience to that law on the part of any 
who may come against us. It was for that that these young men whose 
memory we come here today to hallow gave up their young Hves. It was in 
a mihtary preparation that our country might have the power to enforce a 
righteous peace, that they organized themselves from a military point of 
view and took up the great burden of civilization. 

Those are the two great leading points of carrying our civilization onward 
and upward: justice and preparation; obedience to law on our own part, 
and the enforcement of that obedience on the part of others. It has been 
that that Harvard University from its inception has taught to the Common- 
wealth: justice and preparation; a knowledge of what the requirements of 
civilization are, and a determination at all times to hve by them and abide 
by them. 

And it is for that reason that I am privileged to come here and bear to 
you the greetings of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, conscious that 
here is the abiding place of truth, beheving that there will forever go out 
from this institution that force, that teaching, that character that will make 
these things abide in the commonwealth for evermore. 



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PRESIDENT LOWELL 

Introducing General Pershing 

"VIT^E meet to honor those who in this place will meet no more. The guns 
▼ T are silent now; the drums have ceased to beat, the battle flags are 
furled; and men return to common toil. The martial fire has cooled; the 
harmony among the peoples that fought side by side fast fades away; the 
inspiration of the cause has been obscured. But a deeply precious thing 
remains — the memory of those who in the glowing spirit of self-sacrifice 
gave up their lives for all that we hold dear. They died for nought if we for- 
get that by their death they taught the use of life. Unselfish was the aim for 
which these lives were given. Let not their comrades, or those who could not 
join the ranks, lose the high thoughts that filled their souls. Let not crude 
selfishness, of man or group, kindred or nation, mar the example they have 
set for us. By living on their lofty plane, and only so, can we most fitly 
honor them. 

The man who best can speak for them is here, their leader and com- 
mander, General Pershing. 



GENERAI. PERSHING 

I CONSIDER myself signally fortunate to participate in this memorial 
service with you. We have assembled to do homage to the memory of 
those men of Harvard who gave their all to their country. Because of the 
broad principles of right and of justice for which we stand, these ceremonies 
have greater significance to us than to other peoples. The gathering here 
today is pecuharly impressive because of our intimate association with those 
whom we mourn, because, as their friends, we feel their presence among us. 

At this historic shrine, we hold communion with ancestral patriots of '76, 
whose inspiration to loyalty has come down through the generations. Here 
came Washington to confer with his generals and to give new courage to the 
cause. When the Union was in danger the gallant men from this great school 
made the name of Harvard synon3rmous with patriotism. In '98 the tradi- 
tional valor of Harvard was fully sustained by the men of that day. 

In the World War, this University took the lead in placing her resources 
and influence at the disposal of the Government, and her sons rose rapidly 
and efficiently to positions of trust and importance. Those who trained upon 
your campus carried their high ideals to France, and on the battlefield up- 
held your enviable standard of devotion and loyalty. 

Reared in an atmosphere of freedom, they went abroad willing to give 
their lives to the cause with no thought of gain. The principles our fore- 
fathers fought to estabhsh, they fought to maintain. Through their sacri- 
fices they have given us and future generations a more lofty conception of 
justice and liberty. Their deeds will become the heritage of succeeding 
classes, and forever remain the example of what their Alma Mater expects 
of her sons. 

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At this moment we bow our heads in honor of the brave Allies whose 
people and armies bore the brunt of war for four terrible years, and whose 
dead, with our own, lie in consecrated ground which their courage redeemed. 
To the mother and the widow our hearts go out in deepest sympathy, yet 
we feel wdth them the solemn pride of having laid such a precious sacrifice 
upon the altar of humanity. 

There was one among you here, in the early days of the World War, who 
was an old army friend of mine. He gained your affection and admiration, 
as he had that of everyone who knew him. He occupied for a time an inti- 
mate and responsible position on my staff. In the Argonne battle he volun- 
teered his services at a critical moment and instantly won the confidence of 
the regiment he led. In a few hours he fell, mortally wounded. His death 
was as beautiful as his life. In all the Army I know of no man who repre- 
sented so much that is fine as did Jim Shannon. He was a strong man among 
men, a tender husband and father, a beloved friend, a gallant soldier, and, 
above all, an ideal Christian gentleman. 

To the memory of your men who, like Shannon, courageously gave their 
lives that we might live, we pay our himible tribute of love and respect. 
May their heroic deeds inspire in us cleaner, better lives and higher service 
for the common good. Each man who leaves these halls, embarking on life's 
career, should carry with him an ever present memory of what strong Har- 
vard men have given to make glorious the war history of this University. 



THE FIRST STANZA OF FAIR HARVARD 

Sung by the Audience, led by the Harvard University 
Glee Club and Cholr 

Fair Harvard! thy sons to thy jubilee throng. 

And with blessings surrender thee o'er. 
By these festival rites, from the age that is past 

To the age that is waiting before. 
relic and type of our ancestors' worth, 

That has long kept their memory warm, 
First flower of their wilderness ! star of their night ! 

Calm rising through change and through storm! 



BENEDICTION 

By Bishop Lawrence 

Unto God's gracious mercy and protection we commit you. The Lord 
bless you and keep you. The Lord make his face to shine upon you and 
be gracious unto you. The Lord lift up his countenance upon you and 
give you Peace. Amen. 

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Many loved Truth, and lavished life's best oil 

Amid the dust of books to find her, 
Content at last, for guerdon of their toil. 
With the cast mantle she hath left behmd her. 
Many in sad faith sought for her, 
Many with crossed hands sighed for her; 
But these, our brothers, fought for her. 
At life's dear peril wrought for her. 
So loved her that they died for her, 
Tasting the raptured fleetness 
Of her divine completeness: 
Their higher instinct knew 
Those love her best who to themselves are true. 
And what they dare to dream of, dare to do; 
They followed her and found her 
Where all may hope to find. 
Not in the ashes of the burnt-out mmd. 
But beautiful, with danger's sweetness round her. 
Where faith made whole with deed 
Breathes its awakening breath 
Into the lifeless creed. 
They saw her plumed and niailed. 
With sweet, stern face unveiled, • i u 

And all-repaying eyes, look proud on them m death. 



James Russell Lowell. 



''Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration, 
July 21, i86s. 



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